Articles by Whitney Leonard

About Whitney Leonard

Whitney Allison Leonard is an Emerson College graduate student. She is about to graduate with a masters in Journalism. Her interests in journalism include writing about music and being in radio. Whitney has been in radio for the past four years and has also had experience in the tv and writing platforms of journalism.

Within the past decade Boston and other parts of New England have seen a revival of a genre that has been down for a while in the region: country music. Country’s popularity now harkens back to a time almost a half-century ago.

The Country Music Association was created to save country music on radio as television emerged and took over as a top medium for entertainment during the late 1950s. But some experts such as Clifford Murphy, author of the book “Yankee Twang: Country and Western Music In New England,” feel it unintentionally disenfranchised other regions of the U.S. from having what is considered true country music.